Webster's 12th Collegiate Dictionary was informed by their online dictionary and is unlike any previous dictionary they had ...

"noun. Informal. Chiefly Philadelphia. something or someone for which the speaker does not know or does not need a specific name. "Example: Can you hand me that jawn right there?" That's how ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Merriam-Webster surprised fans of “The Simpsons” by adding the word “cromulent” to the dictionary as part of the most recent update, making it official with the made-up term that first appeared in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. “Six-seven still hasn’t even peaked in its usage yet,” Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at ...